as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: apparently from the name of the herb (Middle English sauge, via Old French from Latin salvia); compare Sorrel and Bay. In part it may also have been taken from the vocabulary word meaning ‘wise’ (from Latin sapius).
| 3,889th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,846
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 15,416
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Sage per capita
- 2005
- marked the height of its popularity
66%
34%
0%
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55+
1%
30-54
30-54
9%
13-29
13-29
90%
0-12
0-12
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